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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)

Note 491 — BOOK XXXII.1 REMEDIES DERIVED FROM AQUATIC ANIMALS. (continued 2)

John Bostock translation

Rondelet says, B. v. c. 4, that it is a fish still known (in his time) as cantheno, by the people of Narbonne. Ovid, in his Halieuticon, l. 103, speaks of the unpleasant flavour of its juices.

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